simulate keystroke

[Larry Watts]

Exactly!  I posted a reply to Terry saying that I got inconsistent results. 
I often had to click 6 or 7 times to get the button to respond and there 
were other problems too.

I just haven't had time (daughter got married this weekend and lots of 
family here) to implement your latest idea, Jacqueline.  But I will and let 
you know how it turned out.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: simulate keystroke


> Terry Judd wrote:
>> Hi Larry - it might not be the ideal way to do it but it seems to work 
>> quite
>> reliably here. All I have are two buttons on a stack with an empty button
>> named 'cancel' that has its autohilite set to false and a button named 
>> 'run'
>> that has the following script - slightly modified from the previous 
>> version
>> so that you get some feedback in the message box.
>>
>> ON mouseUp
>>    REPEAT forever
>>       wait 0 milliseconds
>>       put the milliseconds
>>       IF within(btn "cancel",the mouseLoc) THEN
>>          put "cancel"&& the milliseconds
>>          IF the mouse is down THEN
>>             set the hilited of btn "cancel" to true
>>             wait until the mouse is up
>>             set the hilited of btn "cancel" to false
>>             exit repeat
>>          END IF
>>       END IF
>>    END repeat
>> END mouseUp
>
> The results of this can be inconsistent. The engine only checks the mouse 
> state at the exact moment the line of script is running, which is usually 
> just a fraction of a millisecond; that is, if the user clicks the mouse 
> quickly and the "mouse is down" check isn't the line that is running at 
> that precise instant, the mouse state will not be evaluated. A quick mouse 
> press will often be missed.
>
> This type of repeat loop is a good candidate for the technique on the web 
> page I mentioned.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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